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Graham Norton presents a compilation video featuring some of the best moments from The Graham Norton Show over the past nine years. Graham, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, and Hugh Bonneville chug wine during the show, Mark Ruffalo and James McAvoy ride around on unicycles, and much more. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge […]

Gothamist has put together a very amusing compilation of busy New Yorkers growing increasingly frustrated as they try to swipe their incredibly fickle MetroCard through the subway turnstile, only to be met with a tenacious metal bar that refuses to give. Just as we’ve all juuuuust missed getting on the subway train, we’ve also all […]

Students at Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai City, Japan have resurrected Zoo Jeans, a 2014 line of denim dungarees that were pre-treated by the the sharp teeth and claws of lions, tigers and bears (oh my) at a local zoo. In order to get this type of wear, denim was wrapped around the animals’ favorite […]

An adorably perceptive baby elephant named Dok Rak, who lives at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand, watched closely as the adults deftly picked up grass that had been strewn across the floor with their trunks and then did his very best to imitate them, figuring out how to position his trunk to […]

Vox editor Phil Edwards took a look at the work of anthropologist Edward T. Hall and his informative science behind the human and cultural use of space. Naming the science “Proxemics“, Hall described the concept of personal space in his books The Hidden Dimension and The Silent Language. Imagine if you could not only understand […]

The music video “Goodbye, Oh Goodbye” by AJJ from their album The Bible 2 is done in the style of an unspectacular OK Go video. “Goodbye, Oh Goodbye” was shot in a single take in a warehouse like OK Go’s “The Writing’s on the Wall” but without any of the complicated camera moves or visual tricks. […]

On July 4th, Tom Scott of the series “Things You Might Not Know“, wisely and appropriately utilized the time he spent looking for a parking spot to tell the story of Victor Gruen. Gruen, an Austrian national who moved to the United States, was an architect who envisioned the American shopping mall, only to be […]

While spending time at the Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary in Costa Rica, Brave Wilderness host Coyote Peterson spent some time with a baby Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine named Bud, who slowly enjoyed a yummy snack of fresh peanuts while perched upon a log. Luckily, Bud didn’t quill him nor did Peterson provoke him to do so. […]

Sony Pictures Japan has released a great music video, promoting the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot film, that features four female comedians from Japan in full monster hunter gear singing a Japanese version of the original theme song by Ray Parker Jr. The music video stars Yukiko Tomochika, Naomi Watanabe, Oniyakko Tsubaki, and Shizuyo Yamasaki. Fall Out […]

In his newest film Imperium, actor Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame stars as a young FBI agent who shaves his head to infiltrate a white supremacist group that’s planning something big. Nate Foster (Daniel Radcliffe), a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical right-wing terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst […]

The Discovery Science television show, How It’s Made, recently took a look at how the Peel Engineering Company makes the world’s smallest car, their three-wheeled microcar known as the Peel P50. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

In a wonderful collaboration with Sesame Street, a very helpful Simon’s Cat teaches an inquisitive Elmo about the manner in which kitties everywhere play, which Elmo generously explains to his audience. Later on, Simon’s Cat teaches Elmo how to nap. A playful cat teaches Elmo all about cats. ‘Play like a Cat’ is one of […]

Emirates Airlines recently posted a fascinating time-lapse video of one of their Airbus A380s, the world’s largest commercial aircraft, being repainted and given a stunning “makeover”. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

The father and son team of Dan and Lincoln from What’s Inside? teamed up with How Ridiculous to perform some impressive trick shots on an oversized dartboard before cutting a real one in half. We CUT a Dart Board IN HALF!!!! How in the world do the darts stick in the board over and over […]

17-year-old video editor David Garuchava of The Garo Studios has created “Hand of The Queen,” a wonderful supercut tribute to Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) and his meticulous rise to power on Game of Thrones. We previously wrote about David’s supercut tribute to Jon Snow. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Artist and programmer Gene Kogan ran the Boston Dynamics video demonstrating their upgraded Atlas robot through the Densecap captioning system, which tries to identify objects in a video. The system is both impressive and at times wildly inaccurate, labeling the robot in the resulting video as a variety of incorrect things like a person skiing, […]

On a recent episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert laid down with Samuel L. Jackson under the night sky to ponder many of life’s deepest mysteries in “Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars.” Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Actress Margot Robbie, who will star as Harley Quinn in the upcoming Suicide Squad film, recently sat down with Vanity Fair to define 50 Australian slang terms in under 4 minutes. Margot will also appear in the August issue of Vanity Fair magazine. Suicide Squad is set to hit theaters on August 5th, 2016. The […]

Seeker Stories goes inside an old Newark, New Jersey laser tag arena to see how Aerofarms uses advanced vertical farming techniques to maximize crop output while reducing environmental impact. These vertical farms use 95% less water than field farming and help eliminate the need to transport harvested food long distances. There’s a revolution happening in […]

Matt Damon recently teamed up with Omaze to prank unsuspecting people by giving them a random phone and then sending them on a Jason Bourne style spy mission. Damon had a great time giving the individuals questionable tasks to complete, raising awareness for his Water.org foundation, and Omaze‘s Jason Bourne premiere charity auction. The auction […]

How It Should Have Ended gives their interpretation of how Captain America: Civil War should have ended. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Mode Video paid tribute to iconic women’s handbags and the evolution of their typical contents over the past 100 years, as shown by an anonymous pair of hands that were clad in accordance with each era, decade by decade. As makeup carriers, cigarette holders, and storage for our wallets, cameras, phones, and so many other […]

Jake Roper of Vsauce3 verbally and visually imagines what it would be like to be a giant and what the advantages and disadvantages would be. You’d have to be careful when walking because although you’d be fine on most surfaces, you’d sink in soil. Speaking of walking and movement, you’d assume that now that you’re […]

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured beautiful auroras active around Jupiter’s north pole. The auroras cover areas larger than Earth, and are fueled not only by solar winds but also by charged particles from the area surrounding Jupiter. NASA scientists expect to learn more about Jupiter’s atmosphere now that the Juno mission has successfully completed […]

Artist Cindy Chinn, whose work includes an amazing train and trestle, has crafted a gorgeous graphite carving of a family of elephants who stroll gracefully along the pencil’s edge. The piece was created for the Epiphany Elephant Museum in Chino, California. This pencil was commissioned by the Epiphany Elephant. It was a challenge from the […]

Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE explain, through the use of whiteboard animation, how certain regional accents are perceived, at what age accents are formed and the advantages of being bilingual. If you try to learn a language regardless of your age, synaptic connections are made which ultimately create a denser gray matter and […]

Now You See It host Jack Nugent looked at the core differences between American and British comedy. The comparison can be a tenuous one, and Nugent himself admits he doesn’t have a simple answer. The distinction between the two styles is not always clear, and both forms of comedy have influenced each other over the years. Help […]

In 2012, Tennessee-based maker Shadowman spent over year constructing a full-size skeeball machine from K’NEX building toy pieces. Since that time, Shadowman has been very busy building Citadel Knex Ball Machine, a brilliantly colorful masterpiece that’s been three years in the making. After 3 years, my Knex ball machine Citadel is finally finished! This machine […]

To celebrate the Fourth of July yesterday, Jimmy Kimmel Live parking lot security guard Guillermo Rodriguez went all out by lighting an astounding 5,000 charcoal snakes all at once. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

“The Arena” is a great new song from violinist Lindsey Stirling‘s upcoming album, Brave Enough. Lindsey recently released a fantastic Mad Max themed music video featuring her dancing in the wasteland with professional Latin and ballroom dancer, actor, and choreographer Derek Hough. The Brave Enough album is currently available to pre-order from iTunes and Amazon […]

Cracked spokesman Roger shows what the world would be like if coffee commercials were forced to be honest about their addictive hot brown liquid. The video reveals some of the effects of coffee as well as some of the problems with how it is sourced and distributed. Only good marketing could get the entire world […]

In the 22nd episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, WatchCut Video provides a visual history of the past 100 years of beauty in Puerto Rico/New York as modeled by Alex Fernandez whose hair and makeup for were styled in correlation with the researched trends of each location and decade. images via Watch Cut […]

Exurb1a has created a comedic and bizarre beginner’s guide to England that covers the country’s history, social norms, food, and many other aspects of culture. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

Scientists from the Micro and Nano Systems Technology department at University College of Southeast Norway built a 1 millimeter wide maze based on the 1980s Pac-Man arcade game to see how unicellular organisms behave in a life-or-death situation. Professor Erik Andrew Johannessen worked alongside filmmaker Adam Bartley to bring the project to life and used […]

On July 4th, 2016, a group of experienced sailors in Maryland encountered a baby raccoon who somehow became stranded in the Chesapeake Bay at Swann Creek Marina, trying to stay above water and crying out for help. Luckily, they were able to tow the little coon back to land with the clever use of a […]

NASA’s Juno probe successfully completed an orbit insertion around Jupiter on July 4, 2016 after a nearly five-year journey beginning in August 2011. The probe will study the gas giant’s atmosphere and determine its temperature, composition, water content, and other properties. Juno will also carefully examine Jupiter’s magnetic fields, gravity, and magnetosphere. One of the […]

I-Ping, Mary, Sarah, and Chelsey who are a fun group of “animators, art directors, writers” who are friends, have created a really clever two-sided round towel made in the spitting image of a giant flour tortilla that’s perfect for rolling oneself up like a big burrito, should one desire to do so. The first production […]

A photo posted by ISHU Clothing (@whatstheishu) on Mar 31, 2016 at 1:54pm PDT The ISHU is a very cleverly designed scarf made from a geometric patterned, reflective material that is able to deflect the light from a camera flash in such a way as to hide everything behind it. The idea came to founder […]

Cabel Sasser, co-founder of the Portland, Oregon software company Panic Inc., returned with his annual roundup of hilarious packaged fireworks, all with really bright colors and a wide range of themes that include music, movies, animals, anime, alcohol and other random comedic motifs. Sasser has been posting these fireworks roundups since 2007, however, due to […]

TrekCore visited the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. to take a look at the fully restored original on-screen model of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series before its big public debut on July 1st, 2016. photos by Kelly Phillips Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of […]

Primitive Technology demonstrated how to build a grass hut using only sharp stones and sticks as tools. The hut’s design and construction are simple, but the project takes a significant amount of time to complete, most of which is spent gathering grass. I built this grass hut up on a ridge. It’s roughly parallel with […]

Medievalists recently recreated the training routine of famous 14th century knight Jean le Maingre, also known as Boucicaut, while wearing a full suit of metal armor to demonstrate the range of movement. via Tastefully Offensive Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

69-year-old Peter Browne and his friend Mervyn Huggett spent 1,000 hours building a Wallace and Gromit style breakfast machine that perfectly makes a cup of tea, toast, and a soft-boiled egg. Browne demonstrates the “Sunday Morning Breakfast Making Machine” in a video segment for SWNS. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.

“All Was Well” is a beautiful song by the Swedish band Wintergatan that features two new instruments, including one built with LEGO. Band member Martin Molin improved on his design for a music box by adding a paper-pulling machine constructed from LEGO, and demonstrated how he built it in a behind-the-scenes video. The other instrument […]

German professional race car driver Nico Hülkenberg of the Sahara Force India Formula 1 Team was recently able to bring viewers with him and allow them experience how Formula 1 drivers see the track and how incredibly fast their reflexes are. Nico did this by putting on a special pair of eye tracking goggles and […]

A photo posted by Obvious Plant (@obviousplant) on Jun 30, 2016 at 9:49am PDT Comedian Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant recently stirred up some trouble by leaving a hilarious collection of fake animal facts all over the Los Angeles Zoo. Jeff educated visitors by letting them known that flamingos are cheating bastards, Meerkats can surprisingly […]

The filmmakers at Corridor Digital have created “Red vs Blue,” a live-action battle between red and blue pop culture rivals. Iron Man takes on Captain America (Freakin Rad), Lady Sonic (Manzi DeYoung) mows down Mario (Jake Watson), a YouTuber (Shonduras) films a crazy cop (Niko Pueringer), and more. music by Max Gorelick Help Laughing Squid […]

Household Hacker recently shared 10 amazingly simple life hacks that may just save quite a bit of time and money. They demonstrate how to “make your own dishwasher tablets, fix a leak with a rubber glove, get rid of food burned into stainless steel, and much more.” Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge […]

In a patriotic themed episode of “Today I Found Out“, host Daven Hiskey explains why Americans annually celebrate Independence Day on July 4th, rather than on the day the Declaration of Independence was actually signed. It’s also interesting to note that John Adams thought that July 2nd, not July 4th, would be celebrated in the […]

Burger Fiction takes at the evolution of Steven Spielberg films over his 50 years as a director. Help Laughing Squid grow with a monthly pledge of support.